Packaging question

[Tom Masterson]

I am considering taking on bug 53062 "mysql workbench package request". 
However I am not suer how we want to prceed on this one.  Mysql has 
packages for ubuntu 8.04 on their site (which I have not looked at yet).

Do we want to pull the pacages over to the ubuntu repository and update 
them so they are up-to-date with the latest version of Ubuntu?
Do we want to leave the pacakging to the maintainer on the mysql side and 
mark the bug in some other way?

I have about three years as a build release engineer primarily with redhat 
and custom packaging though I have done some with apt packaging.  I do 
however have a lot to learn on that side of things.

Tom